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Ilana Masad

Ilana Masad

Ilana Masad is an Israeli-American writer living in New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Hobart, Broadly, Bustle, Dame, McSweeney‘s, and more. She is the founder of The Other Stories, a podcast for new, emerging, and struggling writers. Find her on Twitter @ilanaslightly.

Ignorance is caused by fear, reporter Joanna Connors writes, and it is with this attitude that, 21 years after she was raped, she begins the process of trying to understand the man who raped her, the man she thought “would be the last human being [she] would see on this earth.”